page_title: List of Indian intelligence agencies
section_title: Aviation Research Centre
hierarchical_section_title: List of Indian intelligence agencies / Aviation Research Centre
caption_attribution_description: Cameras of MiG-25RB at Lipetsk AFB, 1997
context_page_description: India has a number of intelligence agencies of which the best known are the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external intelligence agency and the Intelligence Bureau, the domestic intelligence agency.
context_section_description: The Aviation Research Centre (ARC) is a part of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat (Special Requirements) India. The first head of the ARC was R. N. Kao, the founding chief of R&AW. Over the years the ARC has grown into a large operation and flies a large and varied fleet.
  Aerial surveillance, SIGINT operations, photo reconnaissance flights (PHOTINT), monitoring of borders, imagery intelligence (IMINT) are the main functions of the Aviation Research Centre (ARC). The aircraft are fitted with state-of-the-art electronic surveillance equipment and long range cameras capable of taking pictures of targets from very high altitudes. ARC also takes the responsibility along with the IAF to transport Special Frontier Force (SFF) commandos from their trans-location at Sarsawa, 250  km north of New Delhi, though the SFF's own base is in Chakrata in Uttarakhand (UK) state.
caption: Cameras of MiG-25RB for aerial surveillance
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